Frank Ordonez / The Post-StandardCincinnati forward Justin Jackson received a technical foul after engaging in too much talk during Saturday's game against Cincinnati at the Carrier Dome.

With Syracuse leading Cincinnati 57-46 with about five minutes left in the game, Scoop Jardine drove the baseline and lost the basketball. Rick Jackson lunged for it and lay on the Carrier Dome floor when a couple Bearcats attempted to wrest the ball away.

Officials separated the players in the pileup. And then referee Ed Corbett walked over to Cincinnati’s Justin Jackson, who was one of the Bearcats who dove on the ball, and told him to “shut up.”

Fourteen seconds later, Corbett had apparently heard enough. He whistled Justin Jackson – a freshman from Cocoa Beach, Fla. -- for a technical foul, sending Dion Waiters to the line to shoot two free throws.

Here’s what Rick Jackson observed from the pile on the floor near the Syracuse bench that started the incident:

“He was talking the whole time and he got Teed up and that was the end of that,” Rick Jackson said. “It started there, really. He dived on me. He said what he said. So, whatever.”

Cincinnati coach Mick Cronin said Justin Jackson was tagged with a technical for excessive talking.

“Which is confusing to me,” Cronin said, “because if two guys are talking, why does one get a ‘T’? And why doesn’t somebody tell me so I could take him out of the game?”

Gates bothered by ankle
Yancy Gates hobbled off the Carrier Dome at one point in Saturday’s game, hopping on his right leg.

The junior forward, who came into the game averaging 11.9 points and 6.9 rebounds per game, played just 17 minutes against SU. Cronin said a sore ankle limited the 6-foot-9 Gates.

“He wanted to go back in,” Cronin said. “I saw him limping, so I didn’t think he’d be able to be effective.”